Installing KDE 3.3 from deb packages

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Monday, September 6th 2004, 12:50am

I am trying to install KDE 3.3 using aptitude (debian linux package manager) and have run into some problems that I have tried to solve for quite a while, and couldnt get done. I have KDE 3.3 installed, but the package kontact-plugins isnt getting installed. KDE is working fine and I love the new version so far, but I need to get this fixed so that I can install other packages. I cant figure out how to remove the package giving me errors without removing KDE. Could someone please help me out here? I posted the output from apt-get -f install below:

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debian:/# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
kontact-plugins
The following NEW packages will be installed:
kontact-plugins
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 226 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/52.4kB of archives.
After unpacking 188kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Kde
debconf: (Can't locate Qt.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.4 /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.4 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Kde/Wizard.pm line 7, <> line 1.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog
(Reading database ... 195717 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking kontact-plugins (from .../kontact-plugins_4%3a3.2.3-2_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kontact-plugins_4%3a3.2.3-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/kde3/kcm_kontactknt.so', which is also in package kontact
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/kontact-plugins_4%3a3.2.3-2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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cmbofh

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Monday, September 6th 2004, 6:24am

Re: Installing KDE 3.3 from deb packages

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dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kontact-plugins_4%3a3.2.3-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/kde3/kcm_kontactknt.so', which is also in package kontact
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/kontact-plugins_4%3a3.2.3-2_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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I think you're trying to install a package of KDE 3.2.3 over a KDE 3.3 installation here.

Maybe the packager moved the file /usr/lib/kde3/kcm_kontactknt.so from kontact-plugins to kontact between 3.2.3 and 3.3. This would then result in the conflict you're seeing.

I'd say that if you need the kontact-plugins then get the 3.3 version.

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kofrad

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Monday, September 6th 2004, 5:03pm

I just realised that! :oops: I geuss I figured that unstable tree would be up to date. So if I cant seem to find the 3.3 version of the package with aptitude, where could I find it? I'm gonna go search rpmfind to see if I can find anything.

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Monday, September 6th 2004, 5:44pm

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Original von kofrad

I just realised that! :oops: I geuss I figured that unstable tree would be up to date. So if I cant seem to find the 3.3 version of the package with aptitude, where could I find it?

Maybe that package has not been built yet for 3.3 or maybe it's not longer needed in 3.3? No idea.

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I'm gonna go search rpmfind to see if I can find anything.

Does rpmfind work for debs?

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Monday, September 6th 2004, 7:12pm

If someone could tell me how to do it, I am willing to make a package. I just need to get the source code for it and some instructions on making packages.

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Does rpmfind work for debs?

No, I am just coming off of Fedora Core 2, and am used to RPM not deb, so that was just a typo I geuss you could call it.

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cmbofh

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Monday, September 6th 2004, 7:41pm

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If someone could tell me how to do it, I am willing to make a package. I just need to get the source code for it and some instructions on making packages.

I have only just started on Debian, so I cannot help you with that.

Maybe you should try a Debian-specific forum and ask what this problem is all about and whether there will be a 3.3 package... (and if you can lend a hand :-)).

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Monday, September 6th 2004, 8:27pm

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If someone could tell me how to do it, I am willing to make a package. I just need to get the source code for it and some instructions on making packages.

I just read this on one of the KDE mailing lists:
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-debian&m=109448111612382&w=2

It seems to be well-known that not all 3.3 packages have been uploaded yet. Work is underway to get the new Debian version out of the door so this maybe delays other things (like the rest of the 3.3 packages).

Maybe you just need to wait a little. After all it's called unstable ;-)

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Tuesday, September 7th 2004, 12:38am

Thanks for the help, guess I'm gonna do a bit of waiting.

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kharkoma

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Tuesday, September 7th 2004, 7:25am

The problem is the same file is two debs

The problem is the same file is two debs, kontack and kontact plugings

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npacking kontact-plugins (from .../kontact-plugins_4%3a3.2.3-2_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kontact-plugins_4%3a3.2.3-2_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/kde3/kcm_kontactknt.so', which is also in package kontact
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

two solutions

-# dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/kontact-plugins_4%3a3.2.3-2_i386.deb and then # apt-get -f install

or

-use the dpkg-divert, see man page

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Tuesday, September 7th 2004, 12:02pm

Re: The problem is the same file is two debs

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Original von kharkoma

two solutions

-# dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/kontact-plugins_4%3a3.2.3-2_i386.deb and then # apt-get -f install

or

-use the dpkg-divert, see man page

see you

Thanks, I learnt something new.

Last time I ran across that kind of problem I searched the man page of the apt tools but didn't find a corresponding option. So the solution is on the dpkg level....

kharkoma, is there a way to install the conflicting package while keeping the already installed version of the conflicting file instead of overwriting it?
Would that be the --refuse-overwrite option?

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kharkoma

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Thursday, September 9th 2004, 10:30am

dpkg-divert

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kharkoma, is there a way to install the conflicting package while keeping the already installed version of the conflicting file instead of overwriting it?

I dont know, at this moment my debian is in home, in job only win

, but with dpkg-divert i think that is posible, with dpkg-divert you can manage conflicts with same libraries in diferent packages.

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Thursday, September 9th 2004, 1:48pm

I got KDE 3.3 running under Debian/unstable with removing KDE 3.2 and installing KDE 3.3 partly by hand ... not easy because a package that is not in Debian will conflict and you have to install it from an older mirror and there is conflict with openoffice...

http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2004/08/msg00254.html

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Thursday, September 9th 2004, 4:12pm

Debian SID for me, no problems with KDE.

Hi

i dont have any problem with my kde 3.3 upgrade from kde 3.2.2 in SID. i'm a lucky man

and debian its my friend

Sometimes the apt unistall kdelibs-dev but 1 or 2 days later reinstall its

, apt works fine.

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